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AN OPEN LETTER TO NEW YORK KNICKS FANS: Take the train to Brooklyn ... ASAP
Dear Knicks fans,...
The NBA returns, but its racial justice messaging does not
The following is from something I wrote all the way back in… August....
Russia’s name, flag, and anthem banned for the next two Olympics, athletes to compete as ‘neutral’ . . . again.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Thursday that Russia cannot use its name, flag, or anthem in the next two Olympics or in any world championship for two years....
MLB continues dragging feet on universal DH, hurting the game for greedy reasons
It’s two months until pitchers and catchers are supposed to report to spring training, if all goes according to plan (yeah, right), and Major League Baseball still hasn’t determined whether or not the universal designated hitter will remain in effect for the 2021 season....
Giannis signs supermax, but loyalty to Milwaukee may prove to be his downfall
Back-to-back MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo rolled the dice and decided that he will stay a Milwaukee Buck for the foreseeable future....
NBA's Adam Silver should be trashed for pushing players to return to the court way too soon
It’s a Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing NBA commissioner Adam Silver for pushing the players back on the court too soon....
Welcome to The Ladies Room, a new Deadspin Sports podcast ... this week, Real Sports' Mary Carillo wonders if there will be an Olympics in 2021?
Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast....
Dan Bailey is a slide whistle and a sad trombone
You can set your watch to Minnesota sports. The Twins will never win a playoff game, the Timberwolves will see anyone with a name you can remember leave to accomplish anything, and no one will ever remember the Wild even exist, as everyone is more concerned with the Gophers anyway. And the Vikings w...
Charley Pride, Negro Leagues veteran and country music trailblazer, dead of COVID complications
You know Charley Pride, the country singer. The three-time Grammy winner recorded over 40 No. 1 hit country songs and became the genre’s first Black superstar. But before his music career, Pride was a professional baseball player....
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Florida's Keyontae Johnson in 'critical but stable condition' after collapse; previously tested positive for COVID [UPDATED]
University of Florida small forward Keyontae Johnson collapsed on the court during the first half of their game Saturday against Florida State....
James Harden expands his trade list because he has no real leverage
James Harden wants out of the world curated just for him. ...
Big Ten screws over Indiana, rewards COVID-y team with not enough wins
Full disclosure: I went to IU. Historically, we are a basketball school, though even that has fallen in shadow after the glory days of the 80s and early 90s. My point is, we are not, and have never been, a football school....
MLB knows what it wants to do with the DH, it just doesn’t want to pay for it
Now that the baseball Winter Meetings have begun, such as they are in this altered pandemic-form, some real moves are being made. Lance Lynn and Adam Eaton have joined the White Sox either via trade or signing, Carlos Santana has got on the Royals express to 72 wins, and rumors are flying after the ...
<em> Sports Illustrated</em> whiffs on Sportsperson of the Year qualifications
This column is not an indictment of LeBron James, Breanna Stewart, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, or Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. It is, however, a callout of Sports Illustrated for limiting their “2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete” to those who were “champions on the field, champions f...
NHL still silent as greedy owners proving they can never have enough
As is always the case, every so often you look up and wonder, “Hey, how come I haven’t heard from the NHL in a while?” And the answer always comes back, “Oh right, because they’re galactically stupid.” And then you go on about your life. It’s good to have solid things to hold onto at this point in t...
The Champions Classic proved that this college basketball season will be a quiet one
College basketball is going to be weird....
The Niners are setting up shop in Arizona, but Stanford’s not so lucky
Stanford University is in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, which means that the various Cardinal teams cannot play or practice on campus for the next three weeks, in accordance with the COVID restrictions that have resulted in the 49ers making a temporary move to Arizona....
The Makur Maker experiment at Howard was never going to work and already off to a bad start
When Makur Maker, a five-star recruit and projected NBA Draft pick, announced that he was going to play college basketball this season at Howard University — an HBCU — people said a power shift was on the horizon, especially given the racial and social uprisings that have taken place in 2020....
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Message to the NFL: Do the right thing and call off Ravens-Steelers [UPDATED]
Update (5:04 PM): Out of sheer panic and ineptitude, the NFL has postponed Steelers-Ravens to Wednesday. ...
The Denver Broncos have set football back 115 years
The first legal forward pass in professional football history was completed by Massillon’s George Parratt in 1906. Today, the Denver Broncos were forced to play a game that more closely resembled a game from 1905 than anything we’ve seen lately....